More Important Updates!
1. Free Lecture THIS Thursday
2. Update on Animal Services!
3. Some Interesting Statistics…
1. Free Lecture on Reversing Diabetes with a Vegan Diet… Plus Cooking Demo!
What? Dr. Neal Bernard Lecture
When? Thursday, Feb 22, 2007
7:00 pm
Where? Best Western Movieland
6233 International Drive
Orlando, FL 32819
This event was left out of the last BARC email by accident. oops! 
Dr. Neal Bernard is very well known in the animal rights movement, so this lecture should be really interesting. There will also be a cooking demonstration right after, showing how to prepare some of the foods he talks about in his new book. Carpool information at the end. Here is the description:
Please join us for a free lecture on a powerful new approach to preventing, controlling, and reversing diabetes. Pioneering nutrition researcher Neal Barnard, M.D. (founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, PCRM), will share findings from his latest published studies, showing that a low-fat vegan diet can help many patients cut their blood sugars, improve their insulin sensitivity, and reduce, if not eliminate, their medications. He will also describe the three-week dietary approach outlined in his new book, Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes.
Local cooking instructor, Tiffany Ferrecchia, will prepare some examples of the types of foods recommended in Dr. Barnard’s program.
Admission: Free and open to the public. Call Jill Eckart at 202-686-2210, ext. 337, with general questions or 407-351-3900 for directions.
**BARC CARPOOL INFO: If you definitely would like to join the carpool to this event on I-Drive, please email barcucf@gmail.com so we know who to expect (and also don’t leave without you!). We will be meeting on campus in front of the Millican Hall bus drop-off no later than 6pm THIS Thursday.
2. Exciting Update on Animal Services Controversy
Excellent news!! I just received an email regarding the hiring of Dr. Ridgway as director of Orange County Animal Services (as mentioned in the last BARC email).
Hello,
I want to update everyone on the situation involving
Dr. Robert Ridgway, the Covance lab vet who applied
for the position of Director/Manager at Orange County
Animal Services. I was advised this morning by county
administration that Dr. Ridgway is withdrawing his
application. They are reconsidering and are
re-opening the application process.
You can read about this story on the WFTV, Channel 9 website: http://www.wftv.com/news/11055843/detail.html
What a victory for the animals! Thank you to everyone who wrote, emailed and called Mayor Crotty and the Orange County Commissioners. The media attention and your input helped make this decision.
3. Some Astounding Statistics on Factory Farming
At the BARC meeting tonight we discussed our upcoming Meat Out event this March 20th. Here are some statistics that I thought would benefit everyone to view and think about. These numbers say it all…
These are estimates for a minimum of 9.8 billion (9,800,000,000) farmed animals* slaughtered every year in the United States, which comes out to a minimum of:
26,849,315.06849315 killed every day …26 million!
1,118,721.4611872146 killed every hour …1 million!
18,645.357686453575 killed every minute …18 thousand!
310.7559614408929 killed every second …3 hundred!
Considering the fact that there are 301,211,787 people living in the United States (as of 2/20/2007 at midnight)… It takes only 11 days (11.2186022709) to kill the same number of farmed animals in this country, to equal the human population in this country.
* “Farmed animals” include only the following: cattle, chickens, ducks, hogs, sheep & lambs, and turkeys. These numbers do not include the slaughter of fish, crustaceans, rabbits and other farmed animals for whom the USDA does not provide information, or on the slaughter of animals who are not farmed, such as equines.
If you have a question about anything, email copresidents@barcdontbite.org, and you will get a prompt response.